Profile

I am a lecturer in Wearable Technologies at University College London. I received a PhD from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2015 and have been with the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College as a Junior Research Fellow during Apr 2015 to Oct 2018. I received my BSc and MSc degrees (both with distinction) in Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics from Sharif University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of IEEE, and IEEE CAS, SSC and EMB societies. I am on the technical programme or review committees of several IEEE conferences including BioCAS, ICECS and ISCAS, and a member of the IEEE BioCASS technical committee. I have been elected to the IEEE CAS Board of Governors (BoG) for the period of 2020-2022.

My research interests include analogue/mixed-signal IC design and the monolithic integration of biosensors with microelectronics (Lab-on-Chip). We apply the developed tools and techniques in creating new wearable technologies for real-time quantitative analysis of health conditions such as physiological stress and acute pain. In line with this goal, we research salivary biomarkers related wellbeing, health conditions and diseases such as acute pain, oral health, and sleep quality. Currently, the main research themes in my team include:

• Observational clinical study of salivary biomarkers of pain
• Low-power microelectronics design
• Monolithic integration of biosensors and (micro-)electronics

Pioneering application and technologies I am currently interested in:

• Intra-oral wearable technology for oral health and disease monitoring
• Wearable sensors for real-time monitoring of chemical biomarkers of physiological stress and pain